Information | |
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Name |
Fella |
Date of Creation |
April 20th, 2001 |
Species |
Robotic Cat |
The deviantArtGEAR shop sells a Fella plushie, and two packs of stickers both including a Fella sticker. Along with the Fella plushie, Deviants can also choose to buy the Super Llama plushie who is described as deviantART's secondary mascot, or more commonly, Fella's sidekick.
History
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Official Fella Plushie
Fella ws created on April 30th, 2001 by `Switched who uploaded an animated Deviation that was submitted to a mascot contest and later won. Later that year, on December 6th 2001 the group #Fella was created and was used to host images and Deviations related to the mascot, and not only that, but helpful advice for a smooth ride to the site. Although the group is more than ten years old, there is no record of journals until around 2009, starting with news of the Staff World Tour, and a link to #HQ for more information. This is probably due to the fact that group features were not well enough developed, as suggested by their second journal titled "L" where Deviants were experiencing bugs and didn't understand much.
#Fella then used their mascot to advertise deviantART's 9th birthday and several other events, including the going-on's at #CommunityRelations and #HQ.
On April 1st, 2012, as an April Fools joke, there was an invasion of Cats that had invaded the deviantART HQ, tied and Staff up in the closet and captured Fella. This was the #FUR Invasion. The cats needed a specific amount of Deviations submitted to the Free Fella category. This was explained in the "A Message From Your Feline Overlords " journal, and the site was covered in Manditory Cat Education and Trivia.

F.U.R By *DJ88
The feedback to the project was generally great, and Staff received more than enough entries to the category and Fella was eventually set free. Any Deviant that submitted to the category was also rewarded with the "Cat Badge ", which was one of the main inspirations and goals of many Deviants to get as many people enjoy the site badges.
Development and Design
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Fella's original design has been reconfigured several times - the original art by `Switched originally intended for Fella to be a lot more simplistic; the original design didn't even contain line art of shading.
Original Fella Concept - `Switched
Group Relation
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The #Fella group is one of the longest running groups on deviantART and can be contributed to by most every Deviant who joins. The group particularly is to celebrate and collect art of their mascot and generally spread the Devious ideas. On the group page itself, Fella states in a speech bubble that it is his mission to help Deviants have a pleasurable experience on deviantART. He also states that the group of staff for the group help him do it, and he refers to them as his friends.
Trivia
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- Although the plushies are not very old, they have the updated site logo on their chests similar to the original concept art of Fella, however, new vectors and renders of Fella do not contain any different type of logo on their chests. The plushies also have the new editions on the logo, not the versions that we see in the concept art.
- Despite having a humanoid body with no joints attaching his hands and feet, he is still insisted to be a feline.